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Despite fresh uncertainty, Tsipras insists focus is on four-year term
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras has again insisted he has no intention of calling snap elections, despite the latest uncertainty caused by events in Italy. Speaking at the general meeting of the Federation of Hellenic Industries (SEV) on Tuesday, Tsipras repeated the comments he made last week about
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Almost 1 in 3 jobs in private sector are part-time, average full-time salary at 936 euros
EconomyMacroeconomyThe Unified Social Security Fund (EFKA), which has since last year seen all the main social insurance funds in Greece come under its umbrella, released on Wednesday its latest employment data. The data has a significant lag since the most recent available dataset was for November 2017. The summary
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Retail sales up by 1.2 pct in March on higher activity in dept stores, clothing
EconomyMacroeconomyto 71.9. The latest business indicators for May published by the European Commission on Wednesday put
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Capital controls eased, allowing larger withdrawals and doubling limit on business transfers abroad
EconomyMacroeconomysignificantly the opening of new bank accounts were further relaxed. In the latest Supplemental
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More debt talks lined up but chances of IMF departure growing
EconomyProgrammea first look at the latest debt sustainability analyses carried out by the European institutions, while
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Parties draw dividing lines ahead of new protests over name issue
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the opposition parties are backing the latest demonstrations, along with a large number of bishops. New Democracy
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Fiscal Council endorses fiscal and macro assumptions but warns of potential obstacles
EconomyMacroeconomyfactor and the average annual growth of 1.1 percent envisaged in the latest MFTS has an element
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Banks meet NPE targets in Q1 but mortgage reductions remain slow
EconomyMacroeconomyand 62.9 percent. The latest operational targets submitted by Greek banks to the ECB's Single
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Bond difficulties put a dent in coalition's exit plans
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the IMF’s loans by the European Stability Mechanism among other things. As a result, the latest meeting
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CPI up by 0.6 pct in May, second positive reading the year
EconomyMacroeconomy. The latest headline number marks the second month of price rises this year. The average CPI
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